Villages seek preventive measures against sinkholes

sentative said. “As we speak, we are out to bid for the next 2023 pavement and drainage improvements.”

Lawrence aims to repave roads based on recommendations to its board by the village’s engineering company, the building and highway departments and Deputy Village Administrator Gerry Castro. Roads that are out for bid include Beach 2nd Street, Breezyway, Herrick Drive, Margaret Avenue and Rosalind Place, village officials said. Bids are expected to be reviewed next week.

The sinkhole in Lido Beach, on Lido Boulevard, opened up when a sewer pipe cracked and collapsed, and the Baldwin sinkhole fractured the pavement at the busy intersection of Grand and Lorenz avenues, and was also caused by a pipe failure. Then an underground water main burst on Oceanside’s Foxhurst Road.

Castro said that whenever Lawrence is undertaking any roadwork, the village contacts the utility companies, including Liberty, PSEG Long Island and National Grid, to see if they want to do any upgrades underground.

“We inform them that we’re going to do road surfacing, because now they have the chance to come in and redo their infrastructure if they deem it necessary,” Castro said.

County legislators unanimously approved a $78 million borrowing plan for infrastructure projects on Aug. 7, which included $15 million for sewer line repairs to help prevent more sinkholes.

Mulé emphasized the need for funding for efforts to keep the ground from opening up in other parts of the county, and called on County Executive Bruce Blakeman to create an emergency infra- structure plan.

“There is an urgent need to repair our aging infrastructure,” Mulé said at a news conference in Mineola, also on Aug. 7. “There is no doubt this will happen again here and in all parts of Nassau County.”

Book Review: “ Die with Zero” by Bill Perkins

In “Die with Zero”, subtitled “Getting All That You Can from Your Money and Your Life”, retired engineer Bill Perkins takes an analytical view about making your life grow as opposed to making your money grow. Letting opportunities pass you by for fear of squandering money leads many to squander their lives instead.

Instead of just keeping on earning and earning to maximize wealth, too many of us don’t give nearly as much thought as to maximizing what they can get out of that wealth — including what they can give to others while they are living, instead of waiting until they die.

As opposed to spending money on things, which excitement depreciates over time, the author advocates spending on experiences, which grow in value over time, due to the “memory dividend”. Perkins advocates a systematic approach for eliminating the fear of running out of money (the main reason people oversave and underenjoy) while maximizing your and your loved ones enjoyment of that money.

Being that the main idea is that your life is the sum of your experiences, you should put some thought into planning the kind of experiences you want. If you die with significant wealth but a scarcity of experiences, you worked a lot of hours just to accumulate money that you either never used or were too old to use.

You can waste your life by underspending. Life is not only about “accumulating”, it is also about “decumulating” or using the money to maximize your life which, in the end, is nothing more than the memories you make.

In a similar vein, giving inheritances early maximizes the impact of those inheritance on the recipients’ quality of life. The average age of heirs being about sixty, the money usually arrives too late to do the most good.

Your time is limited. The chief regrets of the dying are that they didn’t live their dreams more and spent too much time working, missing out on relationships and life experiences.